Princeton's WordNet

1. play possum(verb)

   to pretend to be dead

Wiktionary

1. play possum(Verb)

   to feign death; to remain quiet and still to escape attention or remain undetected; to lay low.

2. play possum(Verb)

   to feign sleep, illness, etc.

3. play possum(Verb)

   to dissemble or to feign ignorance; to disguise or conceal something in order to deceive.

Origin: English play + possum (from opossum), from the behaviour of the Virginia opossum, feigning death when threatened. First documented 1822.

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